[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 756 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 756

To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that 
 preexisting condition exclusions with respect to enrollment in health 
  insurance coverage and group health plans continue to be prohibited.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 16, 2021

  Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that 
 preexisting condition exclusions with respect to enrollment in health 
  insurance coverage and group health plans continue to be prohibited.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Continuing Coverage for Preexisting 
Conditions Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. ENSURING THE PROHIBITION OF PREEXISTING CONDITION EXCLUSIONS 
              WITH RESPECT TO ENROLLMENT IN HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE 
              AND GROUP HEALTH PLANS.

    Part I of subtitle F of title I of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) is amended by adding at the 
end the following section:

``SEC. 1503. SEVERABILITY.

    ``If subsection (a) of section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986, as added by section 1501(b), is to any extent illegal, 
unconstitutional, otherwise invalid, or incapable of being enforced, 
the validity and enforceability of sections 2701 through 2705 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg through 300gg-4), as added 
by section 1201, shall not be affected.''.
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